Comments on: Election Eve Update http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/547 See what large letters I use as I write to you in my own hand. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:21:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: pentamom http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/547#comment-483 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/547#comment-483 "Touchscreen levers?" I live in one of those remote parts of Middle Earth where you actually DO still pull levers (frankly I never understood why that kind of machine isn't simply used universally -- it doesn't seem to have any of the pitfalls of punching, touchscreen, or anything else that people complain about), so I've never seen a touchscreen machine (I may be one of the rare Americans who's never voted on any other kind of machine despite having lived in several different counties), and I can't quite visualize levers and touchscreens going together -- or was that irony again? ;-) “Touchscreen levers?” I live in one of those remote parts of Middle Earth where you actually DO still pull levers (frankly I never understood why that kind of machine isn’t simply used universally — it doesn’t seem to have any of the pitfalls of punching, touchscreen, or anything else that people complain about), so I’ve never seen a touchscreen machine (I may be one of the rare Americans who’s never voted on any other kind of machine despite having lived in several different counties), and I can’t quite visualize levers and touchscreens going together — or was that irony again? ;-)

]]> by: Tim Berglund http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/547#comment-484 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.timberglund.com/blog/archives/547#comment-484 Slight irony. They're actually fairly pedestrian checkboxes that you check by touching them. The font is this 15-year-old 9x16 bitmap monstrosity--no aesthetic love at all. I was going to take a photo to post, but the election judges asked that I did not out of uncertainty over whether it was allowed. I'd totally dig a slightly jazzed up interface with little graphical levers, plus a big, physical lever as the input device that finalizes the vote. This would work so much better than the soul-less, hyper-modernist button Zach had the privilege of pressing. Oh, and sliding the lever also opens the privacy curtain, or at least actuates a motor that pulls it back. Yeah, if I must vote electronically, gimme some of that. Slight irony. They’re actually fairly pedestrian checkboxes that you check by touching them. The font is this 15-year-old 9×16 bitmap monstrosity–no aesthetic love at all. I was going to take a photo to post, but the election judges asked that I did not out of uncertainty over whether it was allowed.

I’d totally dig a slightly jazzed up interface with little graphical levers, plus a big, physical lever as the input device that finalizes the vote. This would work so much better than the soul-less, hyper-modernist button Zach had the privilege of pressing. Oh, and sliding the lever also opens the privacy curtain, or at least actuates a motor that pulls it back. Yeah, if I must vote electronically, gimme some of that.

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